My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • The State of the Game

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    It must be that time of year – there are posts all over the place from folks looking back on Halo 2, and trying to decide where the community stands. On the HaloGrid forum, trigger119 looks at what keeps him coming back to a game he thought he was done with. And on our own forum, Ducain tries to pin down why he had so much more fun in Halo Campaign than he does in Halo 2 Campaign. They’re both good reads – lots of meat to chew. Bring your fork. Me? I’m headed out to the boondocks for the day.

  • Big content for little platforms

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    Mintz sent a note about what’s new over at Halo: Portable – a pair of psp-compatible vids (they were pretty popular in their original formats, so good choices), and the Weekly Update; go grab new content for your PSP!

  • What comes after 4?

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    In keeping with their Heretics & Heroes episode/flashback alternation, Slacker Entertainment has released Flashback 3: Fun with Numbers. Wellington runs up against a challenge he simply can’t overcome… counting to five. Yeah.

  • Criminal

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    Another movie made it through the MPRRS this morning – this one’s from KingChuck and Team Conquest, and it tells the story of a man getting revenge for the death of a friend. The entire story (all 12 minutes of it) is told with music and visuals only; there is no dialogue. Powerfully done, though some of the reviewers felt it started slowly. Check it out – 72 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats.

  • I bet they have real trouble with the buttons.

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    Heh – Hminn noticed a writeup on some funky computer games in which humans are pitted against protozoa… and the writer starts out by suggesting that he hopes he could beat the protozoa in a Halo match. I hope so, too.

  • Soldiers of War Ep Five

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    QuickTactical submitted another segment of Soldiers of War to the MPRRS, and got approved – you can grab Episode Five in either WMP9 format (46.5 mb) or QuickTime format (44.9 mb). The Russian attackers are ambushed by a small contingent of Americans.

  • The Red Carpet Treatment

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    There’s an article about the perks afforded to pro gamers in the upcoming season over at MLGPro.com – travel stipends, free registrations, and other perks are available to the top players. Go read about the 2006 season! Thanks, 3Suns (who suggested a summary of ‘The Rich Get Richer’ for this piece – ouch!).

  • Eddie Smith is AMAZING.

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    Short (but pretty sweet) update this week, over at Bungie.net – soon-to-be-updated playlists, detailed info about the Soundtrack Volume 2, some KILLER artwork, and some nice case mods. And a Mister Chief that makes me wonder what Frankie does on his off hours. Go read – either at Bungie.net, or right here, in the Weekly Update Archive. I haven’t even had time to visit the forum, but I’d BET there’s a ‘First!’ from Frankie there… of course there is. (Silly me for even talking about it.)

  • Hold on to something, brothers.

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    Captain Spark continues his dialogue snippet collection – 22 more tidbits either on his site, or browsable, in our Dialogue Databank.

  • The Hushed Cradle.

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    Many of us miss the weekly updates of the Halo Babies comic; Stuntmutt’s view is that maybe if he taints your memory with bad puns, you’ll miss them less. Go read today’s One One Se7en.

  • Friday Fiction

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    There are 18 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read. I had to delete a surprising number of stories from the queue – either there is a large influx of new writers, or there are community members who simply don’t want to read the rules. If you don’t want your story deleted – read the rules. If you can’t be bothered to format your story for readability, we can’t be bothered to post it. And if you think that filling out the end of a story with meaningless text to get around the 750 word limit will work… you’re sadly mistaken. Please… read the rules. Thanks.

  • Class. All the way around.

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    I doubt they do this for EVERY applicant – but the fact that they do it at all is pretty darned nice. weephun (a forum regular, and a major contributor during the I Love Bees ARG) applied for a job as a Test Engineer a bit ago. He didn’t have the game programming experience to get the job… but Bungie let him know they appreciated his time in any case. How cool is that?

  • This Spartan Life – O’Donnell Interview, Pt 2

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    This Spartan Life has released module 3 of Episode 3 – it’s the second part of the interview with Marty O’Donnell. It’s a great discussion of the power of sound design, set amidst the battle for bodyguard position… with a nice homage to Newman and Redford at the end. (I have to say – while Marty’s skills as a musician are undeniable… his acting leaves a bit to be desired.) This one’s quite large; 7 minutes, and weighing in at more than 10 mb/minute… go grab a copy. QuickTime is up now, WMP9 should be coming soon.

  • 77 Minutes. OMG.

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    Wonga. So there’s a project over at High Speed Halo to complete Halo (the first one) in 77 minutes – and they’re currently 6 seconds from that goal. I have no doubt that once it’s completed, they’ll work to bring every difficulty level up to Legendary – but for now, the whole concept of finishing the entire game in an hour and 17 minutes at ANY difficulty level blows me away. Thanks, HIH.

  • Ceramic MC updated pics

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    A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a project to put together a ceramic Master Chief – last night, boltofaire stopped by our forum again with new pics. Check ’em out!

  • MC Statue – Cheap, so far

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    If you’re interested in one of those 3-foot-high Master Chief statues, there’s one on eBay right now, with a starting bid of $9.99, and no reserve. (Still almost a week left, though.) Thanks, Cassius.

  • Pinkuh Art Dump

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    Pinkuh dropped by our forum last night to display a bunch of commissioned, Halo-related work; neat stuff! (We’ve added them to her Gallery page here, as well.)

  • Where’d everybody go?

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    *UPDATE* – Somehow, in another strange turn of events, the original map has returned, with everybody’s pins intact. Go figure…

    Somehow, our entire Frappr map went missing. Don’t know what happened but it’s a shame too because last time I checked I think we had like around 250 pins on the map. And then POOF!–it was gone.

    So I started it all over again. It’s a clean slate now, so get over there and add yourself and represent your part of the world!

    http://frappr.com/podtacular


  • Where’d everybody go?

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    CapnKrunk
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    *UPDATE* – Somehow, in another strange turn of events, the original map has returned, with everybody’s pins intact. Go figure…

    Somehow, our entire Frappr map went missing. Don’t know what happened but it’s a shame too because last time I checked I think we had like around 250 pins on the map. And then POOF!–it was gone.

    So I started it all over again. It’s a clean slate now, so get over there and add yourself and represent your part of the world!

    http://frappr.com/podtacular


  • OSTv2 Track Listing

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    Louis Wu
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    Over at the Sumthing Distribution site, you can find a track listing for the Halo 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2. As far as I know, nobody else has published this yet. I’m drooling already! Update: Mintz pointed out that Bungie themselves published the track listing more than three months ago.